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Robert Falla
Sir Robert Alexander Falla (21 July 1901 – 23 February 1979) was a New Zealand museum administrator and ornithologist.
He was assistant zoologist with the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Sir Douglas Mawson 1929–1931.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Papers Past — Evening Post — 7 August 1930 — ANTARCTIC RESEARCH )〕 He was the founding president of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. He was involved in the organisation of the wartime subantarctic Cape Expedition coastwatching program of 1941–1945.
He held positions in various New Zealand museums including director of Canterbury Museum from 1 March 1937 to 1947, and director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, 1947–1966. He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), president 1951–1952, and made a fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 1973.〔Robin, Libby. (2001). ''The Flight of the Emu: a hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001''. Carlton, Vic. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84987-3〕
He described Pycroft's petrel (''Pterodroma pycrofti''). Falla's skink (''Oligosoma fallai'') is named for him, as is the Ornithological Society of New Zealand's Robert Falla Memorial Award.
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